John W. Fuller

John Wallace Furler (28 July 1827-12 March 1891) was a Major-General of the US Army during the American Civil War. Born in England, Fuller would lead Ohio volunteer forces before rising to the rank of Major-General and becoming a divisional commander in the Western Theater of the war.

Biography
John Wallace Furler was born in Harston, England in 1827, and his family moved to Oneida County, New York in 1833. He worked at a bookshop in Utica before becoming the owner of a publishing business, and he served as an officer in the state militia. In 1858, after his business was destroyed by a fire, he moved to Toledo, Ohio, where he opened another business. When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, Fuller became the colonel of the 27th Ohio Infantry, becoming a brigade commander in the Army of the Mississippi and fighting at the Battle of Iuka and the Second Battle of Corinth in 1862. At Parker's Cross Roads on 31 December 1862, Fuller led a failed ambush against Nathan Bedford Forrest's Confederate force, and he spent most of 1863 on garrison duty. On 5 January 1864, he was promoted to Brigadier-General, and he captured Decatur, Alabama in March 1864. In the summer of 1864, he led a division during the Atlanta Campaign in Georgia, and his brigade took part in the March to the Sea and the campaign in South Carolina and North Carolina in 1865. On 13 March 1865, Fuller was brevetted a Major-General, and he resigned after the war's end that fall. He became a boot and shoes business owner after the war, and he collected Customs in Toledo from 1874 to 1881. In 1888, he retired, and he died in Toledo in 1891 at the age of 63.